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for the main suspect of the berlin lorry attack. the german authorities have offered a reward of 100,000 euros for information leading to the arrest of anis amri, a failed alyssum seekerfrom tunisia. a royal marine serving a life sentence for the murder of an injured afghan fighter has been refused bail. alexander blackman, who was known as marine a, time, next year. a multimillionaire property developer has been jailed for a minimum of 25 years for murdering of his escort girlfriend. peter morgan strangled georgina symonds in january, after she threatened to tell his family about their affair. an nhs leader has defended controversial plans to change how health services in england are delivered. the proposals would result in the closure of some accident and emergency units, which critics describe as just cost—cutting. bringing us tomorrow.
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with me are lucy fisher, senior political correspondent for the times, and commentator henry bonsu. tomorrow's front pages: the telegraph leads on events in berlin. the paper says the prime suspect for the massacre was under covert surveillance for months as a possible terrorist, but police let him slip through their grasp earlier this month. anis amri stares from the front of the metro. he is now said to be the most wanted man in europe. the times says the authorities suspected amri of preparing a serious crime, endangering national safety, but red tape prevented his deportation. the i says the german authorities are under pressure after a series of blunders in their hunt for the killer. the ft pictures some of the suspect‘s different identities. its main story is that the world's oldest bank is to be rescued by the italian state. the guardian says amri was known to multiple german intelligence agencies.
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and the sun has a pun on the queen's cold. throne a sickie... it is actually quite good, that one. it is actually quite good, that one. it is actually quite good. but we are going to discuss it a little bit later on. the berlin massacre suspect was watched for months, on the front page of the times. we now know a hell of a lot about this guy. a lot coming through compared to what we discussed in the last hour. we found out he was put under surveillance in march earlier this year by german prosecutors, but they abandoned the surveillance after about six months because they decided that although they found out that he planned to break in, taking money for automatic weapons to do one of those roving massacres, when they put him under close surveillance the measures produced no evidence to justify, in
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their view, any further expenditure and further man—hours. they abandoned it. the same thing happened with the french attackers last year. initially they came to the notice of authorities and were put under surveillance but then eventually they couldn't justify monitoring them any more. other things which have emerged, the man's father, anis amri, has described him asa father, anis amri, has described him as a violent, drugtaking adolescent and we found out he was injail in italy for setting fire to an asylum centre, an immigrant migration centre. so this picture has emerged ofa guy... centre. so this picture has emerged of a guy... the classic, you could say, a guy who has left his country, tunisia, he has come into the european union and come to the notice of authorities and been put under surveillance. he has done things which may in some jurisdictions have justified and arrest or possibly a trial, but in italy and then germany he seems to have moved on and got into the wider
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community. but clearly he has got a history of crime. a lot of issues there. the authorities in germany wa nted there. the authorities in germany wanted to deport him, even though they couldn't stick the label of they couldn't stick the label of ”7' u ’ they kept under surveillance, - didn't findenoughevidenfie; they'wanted'tcr rid of because seems to seemsto be! seems to be. it‘s is what it seems to be. it's extraordinary to e that 44 ‘ this
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